Your experience on "practices" for self assessment! - Community life competence2024-03-29T10:01:26Zhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/forum/topics/your-experience-on-practices?commentId=2028109%3AComment%3A161819&feed=yes&xn_auth=notraduction en français:
Etant…tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2017-11-17:2028109:Comment:1663892017-11-17T10:10:13.781ZMarie Lamborayhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/MarieLamboray
<p>traduction en français:</p>
<p>Etant donné que chaque situation et chaque groupe est unique, il faut un certain degré d'intuition et d'improvisation pour faciliter un processus qui soit organique et réactif. Mais, certainement, presque toujours, la définition des pratiques est une étape distincte. Et je l'aborderais probablement de cette façon la plupart du temps:</p>
<p>Je trace une ligne sur une feuille entre les préoccupations et la vision, cela aide à réfléchir à ce qui les a empêchés de…</p>
<p>traduction en français:</p>
<p>Etant donné que chaque situation et chaque groupe est unique, il faut un certain degré d'intuition et d'improvisation pour faciliter un processus qui soit organique et réactif. Mais, certainement, presque toujours, la définition des pratiques est une étape distincte. Et je l'aborderais probablement de cette façon la plupart du temps:</p>
<p>Je trace une ligne sur une feuille entre les préoccupations et la vision, cela aide à réfléchir à ce qui les a empêchés de réaliser leur rêve et à façonner la «proto-pratique»</p>
<p>1. Avant le rêve, je demande toujours au groupe (individus, couples ou petits groupes, plénière) de réfléchir sur les préoccupations (pas une analyse des besoins, pas une problématisation.) Je pense que la question des préoccupations est beaucoup plus profonde et puise dans la motivation humaine et la force de la réponse).</p>
<p>2. Le processus du rêve suit.</p>
<p>3. Si la conversation sur les préoccupations a eu lieu, il est possible - conceptuellement et abstraitement, mais le plus souvent visuellement - de tracer une ligne entre les préoccupations et le rêve. Et demandez au groupe de réfléchir à ces choses - manières de travailler (comportements) ou manières de penser (attitudes et perceptions) - qui peuvent faire le lien entre les deux côtés de cette ligne. Soit ces choses les ont empêchés de réaliser leur rêve, soit ce sont des choses nécessaires, mais pas encore reflétées dans la dynamique du groupe.</p>
<p>4. Parfois, en tant que facilitateur, je vais lancer le processus d'identification de ces «choses», en résumant ce qui s'est dit lors de l’identification des préoccupation et la création du rêve. Se faire le miroir de ce qui a été dit. Demandez-leur de confirmer ou de contester cette interprétation. Développez-la. Discutez-en. Laissez-la commencer à prendre forme comme une «proto-pratique». Il y en aura peut-être une ou deux autres que je vérifierai de la même façon.</p>
<p>5. Et puis, une fois que cette formulation sera familière au groupe, je demanderai s'il y a autre chose. D'autres «choses» (que nous pourrions appeler «pratiques») qui, si nous les incorporions comme manières de travailler ou manières de penser, pourraient aider à combler l'espace entre nos préoccupations et notre vision.</p>
<p>6. Le niveau 5 est l’objectif à atteindre. Il permet au groupe de se situer par rapport à la réussite. Les étapes incrémentielles précédentes peuvent émerger de l'analyse de chaque pratique par le groupe.</p>
<p>C'est une description rapide. Pas particulièrement technique. J'espère que cela pourra être utile.</p> Hi dear community, please hav…tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2017-07-31:2028109:Comment:1640472017-07-31T15:23:45.072Zkhorchi lauriehttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/khorchilaurie
<p dir="ltr"><span>Hi dear community, please have a look at what Lysiane shared about her experience. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>She have an interesting experience of facilitating the Practices. She shared that she never manage to facilitate the dream building before the practices. She always use the practices as way to stimulate the conversation between the group and then ask for a materialisation of the dream by a drawing, a narrative or even a prayer. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span>Hi dear community, please have a look at what Lysiane shared about her experience. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>She have an interesting experience of facilitating the Practices. She shared that she never manage to facilitate the dream building before the practices. She always use the practices as way to stimulate the conversation between the group and then ask for a materialisation of the dream by a drawing, a narrative or even a prayer. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>Do you have such experience? Please share you experience if you also facilitated the process the other way around (practices first and then dream building).</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>Here is the experience she shared translated by Phil, please share you though and relevent experience to help us determine how to include this step in the entire process. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><em>"I wanted to respond to Laurie's and GST's request for facilitation experiments in the practice stage. For my part, it has been a very short time that I have facilitated the process, but since I did the online training I had the opportunity to accompany some groups. And after a discussion with Laurie I realize that I have to share my experience and that this can eventually advance thinking around the place of the practice stage in the process.</em></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><em>I have never managed to derive the practices from the dream. The step of surfacing the practices has always come before the common dream. It is a step to go from the “I” to the “We”.</em></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><em>I will explain here how I adapted the process to meet the needs and the expectations of the groups I have been working with.</em></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><em>Since my involvement in the triads of the SALT Online Program, I have accompanied a group of people who are embarking on the transformation of a Bio Cooperative into SCOP (I think that this is something like a co-operative in England PF). This is the store of L'Epine Vinette in Briançon. When I proposed to accompany them with the CCV process, the group was questioning their identity and their dream for the future.</em></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><em>For the formulation of the dream and the practices I have adapted the process somewhat to allow a co-construction and a real ownership of both the process and the project.</em></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><em>For the dream I started by making the individual dream. Following this they did an active listening exercise in pairs. The person who listened to the dream of the other then presented the dream of his teammate in plenary.</em></p>
<p dir="ltr"><em>During this time of presentation, there was a reporter who noted each idea of individual dreams on a post-it note. We ended up with a series of post-it notes on the wall (see opposite)<img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/P_uXBK7ZHHKzlLwOSOlL8moCBPhOD4ESf68g6RNrxXvgIGwX2p_juGj8pyWLX7w4EdkxHiTIt4h8yo3UPQ7uuHtWSks9PEi1CjHkeNNMAMey9b4w2juvhLLrOVMFKOFH0Wtf9xNPqhibSF591w" width="243" height="179" alt="SCOPEVLesidesdesrvesindividuelsenpostit.jpg"/></em></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><em>Then, the post-it notes were grouped together around common themes.This stage took a long time and the participants' feedback was quite negative on this stage. Nevertheless, I drew on the small amount of energy still present to ask the group to formulate practices on the basis of the identified themes and the words mentioned in the post-it notes.</em></p>
<p dir="ltr"><em>I have guided the group to formulate practices in the following form: WE + Action verb.</em></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><em>They formulated 8 practices:</em></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><em>1 - We Radiate;</em></p>
<p dir="ltr"><em>2- We share;</em></p>
<p dir="ltr"><em>3- We move in a gentle way;</em></p>
<p dir="ltr"><em>4- We cooperate;</em></p>
<p dir="ltr"><em>5- We transmit;</em></p>
<p dir="ltr"><em>6. We mark our differences;</em></p>
<p dir="ltr"><em>7- We breathe;</em></p>
<p dir="ltr"><em>8 - We live with nature.</em></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><em>At this point, we did not yet have a common dream. I wanted to ensure that the common dream could be formulated in an artistic and creative way. So I involved a friend of mine, art therapist with whom we imagined a process to achieve a common achievement that uses visual and plastic art.</em></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><em>From the post-it dreams of each one, they were offered to make a vignette (an image or a kind of storyboard) using the artistic support of their choice (painting, collage, sewing ...).</em></p>
<p dir="ltr"><em>In groups of three, each group working on 3 practices. For each practice they referred to the words of the post-it to realize the vignettes. Each word was represented by a thumbnail (image or storyboard).</em></p>
<p><br/><em><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/GSKYU81GKUhh3kaixx5b8einj6_6pR4cFmZ9xb_rdBfrYNFBAj6tnnGmEZalFC6h9PZtGeAm5BZy2moxKYeANJPM6Wh_w1jNXOTc4ukcXPNrrr_txU8hE8loa38_3V1OrYulwKenaRi6ag5h3Q" width="322" height="241" alt="SCOPEVLesidesdesrvesindividuelsencrationartistique.jpg"/></em></p>
<p dir="ltr"><em>Then, in plenary, the vignettes were placed horizontally on the wall as if to tell a story. Each practice was represented horizontally by a series of vignettes (about 5 vignettes per practice) (see photo).</em></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><em>In a circle, the members of each group presented to the others their realization and the sense of the images represented.</em></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><em>A month and a half after that, we met again to continue the co-construction of the common dream.<img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/MkoTLW0wJhKNanceV4wUM-oEhRavLzTv_gaY_8FsAUTId3gdL3mnpOQacBWs_AsY1vToiwvdc_ssjnm3UzhpOoNkrjfroJ3ogfi4-F5QH0ZoRDIub11bMj09RH5haI52gOHguy5zlAC3tLWWIg" width="230" height="288" alt="P1010118.JPG"/></em></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><em>We picked up the vignettes and we were immersed in the context and meaning of the images.</em></p>
<p dir="ltr"><em>We then asked the group to select the vignettes that allowed them to tell their dreams as a story, the vignettes that were important to them.</em></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><em>They were then asked to classify the vignettes in a narrative order that allowed them to tell the story of their dream.</em></p>
<p dir="ltr"><em>During this process, they immediately referred to the tree as order of presentation, with the roots and history of the project, trunk and branches. (See image next page)</em></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><em>I asked them to write the story, they wrote a text that they then wanted to declaim in music.</em></p>
<p dir="ltr"><em>Throughout this process, Sophie filmed and captured sounds.</em></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><em>The next step is for us to edit the film.</em></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><em>Since then I have reviewed them to do the self-evaluation.</em></p>
<p dir="ltr"><em>I invited them to take up the practices developed previously and see if they always matched their dream and if they still made sense today. Some have disappeared, others have been modified because they realized that it was more values than fields of actions for the sequel.</em></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><em>They were able to identify 5 practices:</em></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><em>- We weave links;</em></p>
<p dir="ltr"><em>- We Scooperons;</em></p>
<p dir="ltr"><em>- We mark our difference;</em></p>
<p dir="ltr"><em>- We share;</em></p>
<p dir="ltr"><em>- We cultivate the land and the land cultivates us.</em></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><em>In plenary they explained what they were putting behind these practices for a better common understanding. Then they self-assessed themselves where they currently are.</em></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><em>I have another pretty similar experience with facilitation practices.</em></p>
<p dir="ltr"><em>I realize that I have never managed to facilitate the common dream before practices.</em></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><em>For this second experiment, it is a group of a federation of parishes of Briançon.</em></p>
<p dir="ltr"><em>This group was uncomfortable with the idea of drawing, which he found too childish.</em></p>
<p dir="ltr"><em>I am asked to share their individual dream by two and in plenary the listener presented the dream of the other.</em></p>
<p dir="ltr"><em>On a chalkboard I noticed the ideas that came out of their individual dreams.</em></p>
<p dir="ltr"><em>We had before us a set of ideas. I noticed every idea on a post-it and we then grouped by generic themes that emanated from these ideas.</em></p>
<p dir="ltr"><em>From there, I encouraged the formulation of practices in the form: We + Word of Action.</em></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><em>The group was able to formulate 6 practices.</em></p>
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<colgroup><col width="624"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr><td><p dir="ltr"><em>We are moving happily towards community involvement</em></p>
<p dir="ltr"><em>From our differences we make our strength</em></p>
<p dir="ltr"><em>We act to build our future</em></p>
<p dir="ltr"><em>We invite you to participate</em></p>
<p dir="ltr"><em>We take care of the Other</em></p>
<p dir="ltr"><em>We bear the word of God</em></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><em>For some participants it was difficult to understand the meaning of this stage.</em></p>
<p dir="ltr"><em>From then on, I proposed to them to materialize their dream by a text or a prayer.</em></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><em>They found the idea super and wished to make a prayer that they could say during the mass that followed the meeting.</em></p>
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<colgroup><col width="624"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr><td><p dir="ltr"><em>"Let us pray for our community,</em></p>
<p dir="ltr"><em>So that imbued with the Word of God,</em></p>
<p dir="ltr"><em>We took care of our next</em></p>
<p dir="ltr"><em>And act together</em></p>
<p dir="ltr"><em>Building our Future "</em></p>
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<p><span id="docs-internal-guid-6a0ea3cb-9936-5773-9c7d-ee94c66f40b2"><br/><br/></span></p> Thank you Geoff. I like your…tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2017-07-05:2028109:Comment:1627952017-07-05T07:55:39.511ZRituu B. Nandahttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/RituuBNanda94
<p>Thank you Geoff. I like your advice and will try to apply. It is very practical too. No one is going to stop drinking alcohol:-)</p>
<p>Thank you Geoff. I like your advice and will try to apply. It is very practical too. No one is going to stop drinking alcohol:-)</p> some moretag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2017-07-04:2028109:Comment:1629802017-07-04T15:37:36.690ZGeoff Parcellhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/GeoffParcell
<p>some more</p>
<p>some more</p> How about switching it to a m…tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2017-07-04:2028109:Comment:1627872017-07-04T15:26:58.648ZGeoff Parcellhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/GeoffParcell
<p>How about switching it to a more positive statement and include an active verb (in this case "drink")</p>
<p>"We drink alcohol sensibly and responsibly"?</p>
<p>How about switching it to a more positive statement and include an active verb (in this case "drink")</p>
<p>"We drink alcohol sensibly and responsibly"?</p> As promised here are some res…tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2017-07-04:2028109:Comment:1629792017-07-04T15:17:05.936ZGeoff Parcellhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/GeoffParcell
<p>As promised here are some resources. I've copied a proof of chapter 3 of the book No More Consultants. Please treat it as a taster of the whole book which can be found on <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/No-More-Consultants-Know-Think/dp/0470746033/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1499180955&sr=1-1&keywords=no+more+consultants" target="_blank">Amazon</a> in paper or electronic form. …</p>
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<p>As promised here are some resources. I've copied a proof of chapter 3 of the book No More Consultants. Please treat it as a taster of the whole book which can be found on <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/No-More-Consultants-Know-Think/dp/0470746033/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1499180955&sr=1-1&keywords=no+more+consultants" target="_blank">Amazon</a> in paper or electronic form. </p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2474301839?profile=original" target="_self">Building the self assessment framework</a> this captures much of what i have learned about using self assessment.</p>
<p>We did construct a generic framework for life competence. You might wish to start with this and make it more specific to the issue. <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2474302192?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="721" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2474302192?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="721" class="align-full"/></a></p> Hi Celicia and colleagues
R…tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2017-06-24:2028109:Comment:1622672017-06-24T16:53:57.545ZRicardo Waltershttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/RicardoWalters
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<p>Hi Celicia and colleagues</p>
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<p>Recognizing that each situation and group is unique, there's a certain amount of intuition and improvisation required to facilitate a process that is organic and responsive. But, certainly, almost always, this practices piece is a separate step. And I'd probably approach it this way most times:</p>
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<p>1. Before The Dream (which is an analysis of Vision), I always ask the group (individuals, pairs or small groups, plenary) to reflect…</p>
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<p>Hi Celicia and colleagues</p>
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<p>Recognizing that each situation and group is unique, there's a certain amount of intuition and improvisation required to facilitate a process that is organic and responsive. But, certainly, almost always, this practices piece is a separate step. And I'd probably approach it this way most times:</p>
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<p>1. Before The Dream (which is an analysis of Vision), I always ask the group (individuals, pairs or small groups, plenary) to reflect on Concerns (not a needs analysis, or problematizing. I think the concerns question is much deeper and taps into the human motivation and power for response).</p>
<p>2. The Dream process follows.</p>
<p>3. If the conversation about Concerns has happened, it's possible - conceptually and abstractly, but most times pretty visually - to draw a line between Concerns and Vision. And ask the group to reflect on those things - Ways of Working (behaviours) or Ways of Thinking (attitudes and perceptions) - that may stretch between those two ends of that line. Either these things have prevented them from achieving that Vision before, or they are things that are necessary, but not yet reflected in the dynamic of the group.</p>
<p>4. Sometimes, as a Facilitator, I'll kick off that process of identifying those 'things', in summarising what's transpired between Concerns and Dream. Reflect back what I'm hearing, check it with the group. Ask them to confirm or challenge that interpretation. Expand on it. Talk it through. Let it start to take shape as a 'proto-Practice'. There may be one or two others I'll check in the same way.</p>
<p>5. And then, once that formulation is somehow familiar in the group, I'll ask if there's anything else. Any other 'things' (we might call them Practices) that - if we incorporated them as Ways of Working or Ways of Thinking - could help bridge the space between our concerns and our vision.</p>
<p>6. Level 5 for these practices are about how we know we're successful. The previous incremental steps may emerge from the analysis of each practice in the discourse of the group.</p>
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<p>That's a very rough and dirty description. Not particularly technical. Hope its helpful.</p>
<p>Talk soon.</p>
<p>R</p> My response to follow-up que…tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2017-06-21:2028109:Comment:1623282017-06-21T10:51:30.471ZAutry Hayneshttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/AutryHaynes
<p dir="ltr"> My response to follow-up questions:</p>
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<p dir="ltr">What is a practice?'</p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>For me a practice is a ‘specific outcome’ or intended ;behavior</span> <span>/ developmental</span> <span>change’</span> <span> (in the beneficiaries) that are the logical consequence of achieving a combination of Specific very related actions. This practice is directly</span> <span>related to the common dream that a community pursues in an effort to achieve the…</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"> My response to follow-up questions:</p>
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<p dir="ltr">What is a practice?'</p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>For me a practice is a ‘specific outcome’ or intended ;behavior</span> <span>/ developmental</span> <span>change’</span> <span> (in the beneficiaries) that are the logical consequence of achieving a combination of Specific very related actions. This practice is directly</span> <span>related to the common dream that a community pursues in an effort to achieve the dream, It is ACTIVE in nature.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span>When ACTUALLY doing this however, my experience is, that participants relate more to, ‘what are some big steps’ or ‘stepping stones’ we need to accomplish, so that we can be sure we are in pursuit of our dream? NOT! These are not actions but are a cumulative set of actions.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>After the stepping stones are identified and titled as ACTIVE outcomes, I would say in Constellation we call these practices (^_^)</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span>'</span><span>What does the full set of practices allow us to do?'</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>A full set of practices help a community to be motivated towards a common dream. It helps us to structurally accompany the community as it takes ownership in a responsible way to achieve its dream.As community members have candid conversation on the levels of competence for each practice, trust between themselves [each other] is achieved. There is also trust of the facilitation. The conversation also allows for inclusion of individuals and more confidence of the process.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"> </p> There are two more questions…tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2017-06-20:2028109:Comment:1618192017-06-20T10:57:10.974ZRituu B. Nandahttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/RituuBNanda94
<p>There are two more questions to this discussion. They come from Phil. I request responses to these. 'What is a practice?' and perhaps a related question 'What does the full set of practices allow us to do?'</p>
<p>There are two more questions to this discussion. They come from Phil. I request responses to these. 'What is a practice?' and perhaps a related question 'What does the full set of practices allow us to do?'</p> Many thanks Gaston, I love th…tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2017-06-19:2028109:Comment:1618092017-06-19T12:37:02.509ZCélicia Theyshttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/CeliciaTheys
<p>Many thanks Gaston, I love the practices they came up with (especially "we kick ass") :) !<br/><br/>How do you introduce the concept of practices to them in relation to the dream?<br/>How do you make sure people feel connected to the dream?<br/><br/>Also: have you ever used group visualization/meditation to bring people into the dream and draw the practices (I know I have :) ) ?<br/><br/></p>
<p>Many thanks Gaston, I love the practices they came up with (especially "we kick ass") :) !<br/><br/>How do you introduce the concept of practices to them in relation to the dream?<br/>How do you make sure people feel connected to the dream?<br/><br/>Also: have you ever used group visualization/meditation to bring people into the dream and draw the practices (I know I have :) ) ?<br/><br/></p>